This scene from the movie Gettysburg seems to be inspired by the painting "Prisoners from the Front" by Winslow Homer, www.canvasreplicas.com/images/...
Look again they were actually B-2 bombers everybody knows that the union had B-2 bombers now had it been f-22s that would have meant they were Confederate😀😀😀😀😀
Jeez you'd think that would stick out like a sore thumb to a director and even in those days they could have airbrushed a few frames to not ruin their film.
@@TrentWalker As the actor in this scene...btw you do a superb job...my critcism of this scene the books dialogue is a lot better than the rewrite you got. The book doesn't put Johnny Reb in a good light... he said "What rights are we offendin'?" "Johnny Reb replies: "I dunno but there must be some rights I don't know nothin' about I have that yall are offendin'" and then Union soliders is like omg, these guys are mindless peons who dont even know why they're fighting. Imo that's WAYYY more powerful dialogue, asides not being a slave I fail to see how Southern Whites got some massive benefit from their slave driven racial hierarchy...their job of cannon fodder for the Civil War, they weren't fielding slaves initially in that fight because slaves were property of the aristocracy, the aristocracy eats a loss when a slave gets injured or killed on the battliefield, but if the peasantry Whites get killed...no one eats a loss except their immediate family. While I like the film, I gather the director is not someone I'd ger along with, with trash Neo-confederate Lost Cause views, probably why he dictated a script rewrire from what the book says for this scene...I hate Gods and Generals, that's propaganda trash.
The Tennesseans under Archer fought the First Corps under Reynolds on the first day. The remainder that were not killed or captured like these men, participated in Pickett's charge two days later. They made it to the stonewall, however Archer himself was captured and they lost their colors. Barely a third that had started the march made it back to Confederate lines. Archer's Tennessee brigade fought on until Appomattox, finishing with only 49 men and 8 officers left.
Archer wasn't captured in Pickett's charge on July 3rd, but was captured by Union First Corps Troops on July 1st. He was brought before General Abner Doubleday, a pre-war friend, who recognized him and said "Archer, I'm glad to see you!!" to which Archer replied "Well, I'm not glad to see you by a damned sight". :)
The respect shown to each other here is impressive, something that's rarely ever seen in wars like that. What really touched me was the song played at the beginning- it was favored by both union and confederate soldiers from Kentucky, and it really fits with this scene.
The respect shown by some individuals was great. But the conditions in which these soldiers would have been held would have been terrible. Some of the worst atrocities of the US Civil War took place in the prisoner of war internment camps, both North and South. Of these three Confederate prisoners, likely at least one wouldn't have survived their imprisonment.
Yep. And when you watch the Gettysburg reunions in the decades that followed, the love these men had for each other really makes some of the current political mud slinging over this war seem extremely silly. This was a very brutal war, but there were a lot of instances of camaraderie like this. I think this kind of thing is probably pretty rare in civil wars. I don't think the 2 sides of the Syrian civil war are going to be friendly in the coming decades.
Trent Walker, playing the Rebel Prisoner, one of the best scenes in this film. He did the "What's Seems to Be Your Boggle" part in Demolition Man the same year. Love that this was inspired by the Winslow Homer painting.
Took me years to realize it, but he’s also in Gods and Generals too. He’s the younger of the two confederate soldiers when they’re marching and talking about all the kinds of different uniforms the confederate army had at the beginning of the war before First Bull Run.
My dad, my brother and I have watched this movie probably 200 times and just the last time we watched it we all realized that the song the two soldiers are playing is My Old Kentucky Home. My parents are both from Louisville, KY so the song means a lot to them and to me and my siblings so it was surprising that none of us had ever picked up on it before.
see you in hell was such a respectful and just, romantic way to put the shared admiration that a lot of these soldiers had for one another. biblically speaking, fighting your brother is a sin and worthy of damnation. theyre both saying, we are brothers.
This scene was based on a actual event after the battle in Petersburg, VA in which Union officer, Brigadier General Francis Barlow was talking to several captured confederate officers.
This scene was absolutely MASTERFUL. There is a famous painting of this showing three Reb prisoners' and a union officer that this scene is based off of. Fantastic.
It was just a rich man's war poor man's fight . The poor southerner was fighting to keep themselves in poverty and ignorance for southern pride and rights what a joke
well, they've been on the US side before the war and starting with the Spanish war got massively on the US side again and nowadays they're basically the most patriotic Americans
Spent my entire enlistment at the 101st. Airborne in the mid 1980’s. Met soldiers from all walks of life, some were very interesting, others well... In any event we were all brothers just trying to do our best. Best time of my life.
"Im fighting for my rats" His pet rats back home: "Boy Johnny sure is brave for defending us from those gosh darn yankees squeek squeek" And yes I know he said rights and not rats. I just found the accent funny
Great scene. It gives you some context of what Americans in the 19th century saw as their "country". To someone from Maine, Tennessee might as well of been on the Moon, and vice versa. Their states were their countries, and the federal government was looked at more like how Europeans look at the EU today. But this war changed all that. These men left their "country" and saw these "foreign" places that were hundreds of miles away and realize that the US was their country.
You think so eh? I can promise you one thing sir-alot of us here in The Volunteer State look upon say, California as a place very much indeed akin to the Moon. California is the "Cereal Bowl of America".... it's full of fruits and nuts. New York State and Oregon and other such States are not held in very high esteem here, as I'm sure is likewise with them. I have never seen the US as splintered as we are now in my 52 years of life. The woke culture and the cancel culture have done their dead level best to see to that.
Looks somebody is upset that people are asking for things like dignity and respect and for the right to vote and be free of partisan gerrymandering. Go to Russia ye garbage humans.
@@tennesseeridgerunner5992 This is true, but so is what OP said. Before the civil war, people said, “the United States are…” after the war, they said, “the United States is…”
@@tennesseeridgerunner5992 I'm sorry, sir, but that's just not true. I was born and raised in California and I love my home state, but the vitriol that you feel for our home just isn't reciprocated here. I'm sure if you ask a bunch of Californians they'll have stronger opinions on our own state, positive or negative, than they have about Tennessee or Florida or Texas. I just can't imagine bringing myself to hate a place I've never been to, and my travels around the country haven't changed my attitude. I've been to Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and a few other states and I've found something to love in each of them. Politics is a small and deeply unimportant part of a state's identity.
@@deliriousdavies7552 We even wear shirts (no joke) around here that say "DON"T CALIFORNIA MY TENNESSEE". I think CA is blessed with probably some of, if not most of the greatest natural beauty of all the 50 States. Blue Ridge Mtns exempted, ha ha. I think SF is one of the most gorgeous cities on the planet. My best friend has been an Oakland A's fan his entire life since the mid 1970s. Our dream in High School in the mid 80s was to go to Long Beach after graduating and live. It ain't the State itself, or ALL the population that I am lambasting. As America's most populous state it is the Left Wing ethos that so seemingly permeates such a significant proportion of CA's population that is a threat to our way of life we feel. And then...there's Hollywood. If you think "politics is a small and unimportant part of a state's identity", I would suggest you reconsider. I don't feel like going into that at length right now at 5:12am Eastern. I hope I have given you food for thought today, just as you have me. Have a great day Mr. Davies, seriously.
This scene is actually very well choreographed; and thought out of. Two enemies meet each other personally for the first time, and set on each other's differences. A brief friendship in the time of war and distress matched with the background music adds a sense of beauty to war.
@@billysunday7507 More the Confederates starving the Union POWs at Andersonville. The problem was neither side was equipped to handle masses of prisoners and they just did exchanges. Then there were black Union troops that the Confederates refused to exchange. Then they both had to hold mass amounts of prisoners that they could not care for
When I played the same song while I was out in the West Virginia mountains last summer at cross country camp, I was truly content. One of the best damn country songs there is 🏔🎻🇺🇸
I like Jimmy Hendrixs rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. He was black american who served his country in the 82nd AA was a great muscian and a gentleman.
I was at a reenactment in Missouri years ago, when I belonged to Holme's Brigade of the Missouri Civil War Reenactor's Association. We were near St. Joseph, Missouri, drilling in a pristine area, no 20th century anachronisms around us, when this low flying B-2 stealth bomber flew right over us! Man, if only I had my camera! That would've been a beautiful contrast with us in blue uniforms looking at that B-2 overhead. Neat.
This scene was inspired by a famous Winslow Homer painting, Prisoners From The Front. In the painting, Tom Chamberlain was replaced by General Francis Barlow, who was homer's cousin.
Pretty on point that right after saying he wasn't fighting over slaves he says he was fighting for his rights and asking why they can't let him live his life without a hint of self reflection that millions of slaves were asking the same thing.
The sad thing about the civil war was how utterly tragic it really was. Men who had served together for years and were pretty much family suddenly forced to choose what side they would fight for. Brother fought brother, friend fought friend.
The difference between those Confederate losers and those defending Canada, is that the Canadians defeated the "freedom loving" American army and their right to impose slavery on our country - twice.
Regardless of this being a fictional encounter, it still provides interesting insight into what enemies thought of each other during the Civil War. Their interactions were not often this genial, but it was known to happen given the unique nature of this war.
I have always appreciated the fact that Tom Chamberlain’s interactions with those from the opposing side are interactions that he begins by showing them nothing but dignity and respect. (The three captured rebel soldiers here, the captured officer who he introduces to his brother at Little Round Top, and his dialogue with Armistead at Pickett’s Charge). There is no doubt that his older brother influenced him when it came to having his natural disposition of dignity and respect.
To me, great movies have numerous scenes like this one. Scenes that have little, directly to do with the major story. But, just the same, add a great deal of texture and fullness to a film. Turning a good movie - into a special movie.
So poignant for me. I was a military doctor in Afghanistan I had to transport a prisoner who was wounded by an explosion from the IED he was attempting to place to blow up coalition forces. He lost his eyes and most of his fingers in the explosion. During the transport, I gave him water and after that, he began to pray. Any animosity I toward him had melted away as I, a physician, began to see him as a human being, a patient helpless and broken. I wondered if he would ever see his family again. I said a prayer for him. He was taken away after we landed but I'll not forget him. Face to face he was not the enemy only a casualty of war.
A wonderful scene. I wish there was a recording of My Old Kentucky Home like the one played here. It is so simple and somber, fitting to the scene like a glove.
One of the shots early on is based on winslow Homer's prisoners from the front. The union officer in the original painting was modeled after General Francis Barlow, who made a major strategical error during day 1 of gettysburg placing his division on a indefensible salient
our rats. Yes, that's one of the few close-to-accurate movie portrayals of the southern brogue. Many of my my southern brethren do sound a lot like that.
Damn, I wish there was a full version of that Old Kentucky Home-rendition going on in the background. I've been looking for something similar for months. xD And by the way, I am fully willing to believe that most Southern soldiers did indeed fight for their way of life and State Rights and all that. I'm not so sure about the Southern leadership, who opted for secession in the first place, though: they did have a lot to lose with the abolition of slavery. I reckon that Southern soldier propaganda placed an emphasis on State Rights, while the Southern government under-emphasized the fact that slavery was precisely the reason why State Rights (property rights in particular) were now suddenly being threatened by the federal government.
+Imperial Dutchman They didn't secede directly in order to keep their slaves. But they did secede out of a paranoid fear of declining southern power meaning that they could no longer protect their uniqueness from northern encroachment, even with their Northern Democratic allies. And yes some of that uniqueness was slave owning. The rise of the Republican Party and its openly abolitionist policy, even with a moderate President in power, made it plain that they held no power in Washington that was worth a damn, and the party in power was given a mandate to repudiate Southern uniqueness and destroy the protections under the law that had safeguarded slaveholding and other Southern privileges, such as the Fugitive Slave Act. Seeing that no advantage could be gained in waiting out the storm, and that the South was unlikely to even out Northern advantages in manpower or industrialization anytime soon, and that indeed every delay only strengthened the power of the North to impose its will on the Southern states, they made their move and seceded from the Union. Now again, part, not all but part, of what they were protecting was the right to own slaves. So it can rightly be siad that they were fighting to preserve slavery, because that was one of the results of their intended course of action. I really do doubt the common Confederate soldier gave any more than about one good damn about slavery as an institution though, many of them would in fact probably be better off if the planters had to hire help like everyone else. They fought for their own reasons, usually simply because they were defending their land and their people as they believed.
An excellent analysis! As for why the common Confederate soldier fought, this is perhaps the most difficult part for most people to understand, because most of the soldiers didn't own slaves (though many more Southerners owned slaves than is commonly believed). As you correctly noted, many of them were simply defending their "homes" and their culture. But many of them also had a vested personal interest in maintaining slavery, even if they weren't slave owners themselves. In the North, the common working man was at the bottom of the economic and social 'totem pole.' But in the South, it was the slave who was at the bottom, elevating the common laborer to a higher status (albeit one still far, far below the Southern aristocracy). Thus, the common Confederate soldier wasn't merely fighting for his "rights" and his homeland. He was fighting to maintain his social standing. Of course, in the final analysis, he was still fighting for slavery, but as with many things in this world, there was more to it than meets the eye.
It's Pretty simple: For most of them Washington was a foreign power that injustfully wanted to dictate their politics. They did not accept the northern states even to belong to the same Nation as themselfs.
@@hagamapama And you also have to look at why other states joined or sympathized with the south. Missouri's legitimate government (The Government instituted by the Tyrant Lincoln and his rabid attack dog Lyon was unconstitutional) only voted for secession after they had been expelled from the Capital, Missouri's constitutional unconstitutionally suspended, and it had been made clear that there would be no concessions or magnanimity between the Federal Government (and the German Immigrants in St Louis) and those people that didn't live in St Louis.
You can see a lot contrails in the 1958 move "The Horse Soldiers" with John Wayne. That movie was mostly shot in Louisiana, close to Barksdale Air Force Base. Some scenes are comical, if you look at the sky.
This scene was carefully constructed to match a painting by Winslow Homer, "Prisoners from the Front", 1866. The painting is on display at the Met in NYC, gallery 899. Homer was a correspondent for Harper's Weekly, the CNN of its day, and the prime manner of following the progress of the war for civilians back east.
There wasn't a plane in frame, but it probably was a contrail. but it is possible for them to form without planes, clouds can do all kinds of crazy shit without our help, I'm sure they can form a small line in the sky.
My great great grandfather was captured and sent to point look out survived the and. Came bsck home. Another fought at sailors creek and lost many friends.. he was lost till the end of the war survived all the wat from st Petersburg to Gettysburg to ghe very end even got an ear drum ruptured at the crator
this scene goes to show that not all southerners were for slavery, there was a line in a move were a union soilder asked a southern soilder from Mississippi. " what is it like to own a slave", they other soilder said, " own slaves, we couldn't afford shoes".
Always it comes down to the question, why are we fighting? Leaders and powerful men are not the ones who die. It is people like you or me. All through history so many ask why. The only answer they get is the cries of children with no parents, families with no fathers, husbands with no wives, and parents with dead children. Let's put aside the hate and live and let live. Let no man harm another. .... Nice dream isn't it?
@@benjamindouglas862 with respect Just because I say it wasn’t fair doesn’t mean I don’t understand why the war was fought. A small Amount of death for institution of slavery isn’t fair because a lot of people that died in that war had nothing to do with it. Killing innocent for more innocent isn’t called fair, it’s called stupid and Barbaric. I mean since we are on the topic of fair, why don’t we talk about how southern people are still treated like crap. It’s hilarious how people think there righteous and forgiving but when it comes to southern people you all think we are racist. A lot of us aren’t and we are living our lives to the best of our ability’s like everyone else. Also what the hell is up with your first comment? Ok I think you should tell all of this to Irish Americans. They were the ones shoved into uniforms immediately when they got of the boat but it’s fair? Why punish people who had nothing to do with it? Also if it was fair then northerns should have been brought to justice for the there part in slavery. They got rich off of slavery just like the 1% in the south did. Don’t get me wrong I understand what your saying. Slavery was a huge issue in the United States and it was arguably the biggest “sin” for the United States. I understand why you think it’s fair but it’s not fair. At least I wouldn’t use that word. Thank you for your time. Take care and best wishes
@@benjamindouglas862 I’m neither. I look at two sides of things without bias. At least I try to. It seems to me that you focus on the bad things that the south did but not on what the north did. They both were wrong and I personally don’t think I should choose a side. Both sides did good things and in a lot of cases they respected each other. When it comes to the word deserved I tend to use it very cautiously. Lee was a very big patriot the majority of his life. He was torn when he had to choose and many on both sides believed has was a good man and a gentlemen. I don’t think we have the right to say what people deserve in this case. You think very harshly against southerners and that isn’t a good thing. The south and the southerners did and is doing a lot for the country. The beautiful idea of being American is that we aren’t an ancient culture and that we aren’t all the same. We are all outcast and the unwanted here. We are a country of the unwanted and the downtrodden. All people have done horrible things and all people have done good things. I had family that fought on both sides of war and I had family that stayed out of it. I don’t think they got what they “deserved”.
@@Commodore22345 Thanks for the response, I understand what you mean. the same can be said for the Union tooo: I'm sure there were some soldiers who don't care about abolishing slavery, they needed the money so they fought or got drafted.
92% of the Southerners who fought in the "War of Northern Aggression," DID NOT OWN SLAVES! 92%! In FACT they were small, individual dirt FARMERS, who had to compete, for FAIR grain prices, against the Planters, Who DID own Slaves. 92% is one heck of a Percentage.... That number tells you they were fighting for something else. 92% Therefore.... If the CW was about SLAVERY... Why then was there only 8% of the Southernerers that owned slaves.... THAT FOUGHT, in the CW TO MAINTAIN SLAVERY? ... 8% The Slave ARGUMENT is NOT HERE!
@@Commodore22345 If you will do some research, you just might find: That the USA From 1776 to 1861 was backed by Private, extended Families money/ wealth. With the Majority of these Wealthy, extended families, backing the USA .... Resided in the Southern States. But with the Northern States holding the majority, in population; therefore they held the majority, in both Houses, of the USA GOVERNMENT.The Northern States Representatives Dominated over the Southern States Representatives. With the Northern States Representatives holding the majority... They WANTED A "ONE" CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT.... That controled ALL of the USA WEALTH under one heading. And since, the Northern Representatives would DOMINATE over the Southern States Representatives: The Southern States Representatives would NOT ALLOW the Northern States to dictate over their money. "States Rights!" The Northern States Representatives wanted a ONE USA CURRENCY... So, they introduced the First USA Paper CURRENCY in to circulation with the American People.... maintaing it was backed by ALL of the Wealthy, Extended Families that was backing the USA. And the Southern States Representatives had NOT been Considered in the PROCESS. The Southern States Representatives responded by introducing a "Counterfeit," paper CURRENCY into the Northern Representatives Paper Circulating CURRENCY .... Diluting the CURRENCY and making it "WORTHLESS!" Abe Lincoln went ballistic on the Congress floor: Where he stated, "We will own EVERYTHING these Southerners have, before they were through." THIS IS WHAT STARTED THE CIVIL WAR! At that time, the Wealthy people in the USA stored their Wealth on their property and in their homes. (This is what Sherman was after in his march to the Sea.) And some of these Wealthy Families OWNED THEIR OWN PRIVATE BANKS...There was NO one USA UNIFORM CURRENCY. Most of it was in gold and silver coinage. The DIX was used in many Southern States "Lousiana," was backed by French...People... Their Coinage was referred to as the "Dixie!" And there was another Wealthy Extended family circulating a Coinage in California... With the Gold Rush. There was 5 different coinage, being circulated ALL over the USA, at that time.
If those three guys wouldn't have been captured, they would have had to take part in Pickett's Charge a couple days later. Their bad luck at the railroad cut most likely saved their lives!
@@russellsmith7685 Wasn't Camp Douglas the really horrific one though? As terrible as it sounds, being sent to Fort Delaware could actually be another stroke of relatively "good luck" (and yes I use that term very loosely)
@@russellsmith7685 and according to Gone With The Wind(original book)Rock Island had the reputation of a pesthouse. Southerners would say"Rock Island!" as if they were saying"In Hell!"
Very poignant scene that brings to light why men fight wars one blue one gray how the music sets the tone of the scene ..." My old Kentucky home."...awesome.
Is there a video on UA-cam of just the "My Old Kentucky Home" version played here? All I've found so far is too fast or too slow or having too much "extra".
Not sure about the fellas playing those instruments......I think they should've got the Soggy Bottom Boys to give us some mighty fine a 'singing and a 'pickin!
Funny thing is that I understand much better to southerners than Yankees. I don't know why, but for me as a non-american (even non-english speaking country) is southern english much understandable. :D
Honestly sad to know that even during that war the men on both sides had more respect for one-another than people do today particularly the radical left and their disrespect toward those with even slightly different opinions.
I would have said “ Sorry, what did you say” and he would say “I’m fighting for my rats” again. Then I would say “Your fighting for your rats” and he would say “no I’m fighting for my rats” After half of that I would be like get me someone who speaks Tennessee and can translate!!
Those contrails at 0:10 were left by the B-52 that the union had called in to soften up the confederate positions.
Look again they were actually B-2 bombers everybody knows that the union had B-2 bombers now had it been f-22s that would have meant they were Confederate😀😀😀😀😀
Are you sure it's not a CHEMTRAIL!!!!!!
Jeez you'd think that would stick out like a sore thumb to a director and even in those days they could have airbrushed a few frames to not ruin their film.
Arclight inbound on those rebel traitor sumabitches
I tried really hard to tell myself your comment was stupid and that I'm not going to laugh at it.
I failed :)
One of my favorite scenes.
I think Clint Eastwood's character said it best in Outlaw Josey Wales: "I reckon we all died a little in that damn war."
Thank you! I was very honored to be cast. A highlight of my life.
@@TrentWalker did you do your own stunts eg Wesley Snipes tossing you through a plate glass window?
@@eadecamp Hello, I often do my own stunts, but this one was a stunt man going through the window.
@@TrentWalker Jeffrey Nordling is my cousin and also a certified fight coordinator. Just curious, have you ever had to work with one?
@@TrentWalker As the actor in this scene...btw you do a superb job...my critcism of this scene the books dialogue is a lot better than the rewrite you got. The book doesn't put Johnny Reb in a good light... he said "What rights are we offendin'?" "Johnny Reb replies: "I dunno but there must be some rights I don't know nothin' about I have that yall are offendin'" and then Union soliders is like omg, these guys are mindless peons who dont even know why they're fighting. Imo that's WAYYY more powerful dialogue, asides not being a slave I fail to see how Southern Whites got some massive benefit from their slave driven racial hierarchy...their job of cannon fodder for the Civil War, they weren't fielding slaves initially in that fight because slaves were property of the aristocracy, the aristocracy eats a loss when a slave gets injured or killed on the battliefield, but if the peasantry Whites get killed...no one eats a loss except their immediate family.
While I like the film, I gather the director is not someone I'd ger along with, with trash Neo-confederate Lost Cause views, probably why he dictated a script rewrire from what the book says for this scene...I hate Gods and Generals, that's propaganda trash.
The Tennesseans under Archer fought the First Corps under Reynolds on the first day. The remainder that were not killed or captured like these men, participated in Pickett's charge two days later. They made it to the stonewall, however Archer himself was captured and they lost their colors. Barely a third that had started the march made it back to Confederate lines. Archer's Tennessee brigade fought on until Appomattox, finishing with only 49 men and 8 officers left.
You just taught me something new thanks for that new bit of knowledge that I didn't know.
Archer wasn't captured in Pickett's charge on July 3rd, but was captured by Union First Corps Troops on July 1st. He was brought before General Abner Doubleday, a pre-war friend, who recognized him and said "Archer, I'm glad to see you!!" to which Archer replied "Well, I'm not glad to see you by a damned sight". :)
What a waste of human beings fighting for an ugly disgusting cause.
The respect shown to each other here is impressive, something that's rarely ever seen in wars like that. What really touched me was the song played at the beginning- it was favored by both union and confederate soldiers from Kentucky, and it really fits with this scene.
The respect shown by some individuals was great. But the conditions in which these soldiers would have been held would have been terrible. Some of the worst atrocities of the US Civil War took place in the prisoner of war internment camps, both North and South. Of these three Confederate prisoners, likely at least one wouldn't have survived their imprisonment.
whats the song?
@@coyash76 My old Kentucky home is the name of the song.
Yep. And when you watch the Gettysburg reunions in the decades that followed, the love these men had for each other really makes some of the current political mud slinging over this war seem extremely silly. This was a very brutal war, but there were a lot of instances of camaraderie like this. I think this kind of thing is probably pretty rare in civil wars. I don't think the 2 sides of the Syrian civil war are going to be friendly in the coming decades.
Only the dead has seen the end of war
Trent Walker, playing the Rebel Prisoner, one of the best scenes in this film. He did the "What's Seems to Be Your Boggle" part in Demolition Man the same year. Love that this was inspired by the Winslow Homer painting.
which is itself in honor of an actual civil war photo of three confederate prisoners at gettysburg
The others don't talk because if they say even one word they have to get paid more.
Took me years to realize it, but he’s also in Gods and Generals too. He’s the younger of the two confederate soldiers when they’re marching and talking about all the kinds of different uniforms the confederate army had at the beginning of the war before First Bull Run.
Thank You for opening this painter for me) Didn't know him: I appreciate this work)
My dad, my brother and I have watched this movie probably 200 times and just the last time we watched it we all realized that the song the two soldiers are playing is My Old Kentucky Home. My parents are both from Louisville, KY so the song means a lot to them and to me and my siblings so it was surprising that none of us had ever picked up on it before.
I never noticed it either! Haha
see you in hell was such a respectful and just, romantic way to put the shared admiration that a lot of these soldiers had for one another. biblically speaking, fighting your brother is a sin and worthy of damnation. theyre both saying, we are brothers.
This scene was based in Winslow Homers eyewitness painting " Prisoners from the Front"
In this whole movie, the fake beards and whiskers is comical. What a joke.
I knew the scene looked familiar lol
You will find a number of other scenes based on paintings in this film.
This scene was based on a actual event after the battle in Petersburg, VA in which Union officer, Brigadier General Francis Barlow was talking to several captured confederate officers.
This scene was absolutely MASTERFUL. There is a famous painting of this showing three Reb prisoners' and a union officer that this scene is based off of. Fantastic.
Painting by Morton Kunstler.
The painting is by Winslow Homer.
The guy in the middle "Hot Dam I'm gonna be in this movie, yeeehaaaw" in his head.
@Andrew Stonesifer i thought I was the only one noticing his smile.
One of my favorite versions of "My Old Kentucky Home" ever in my opinion. Civil war versions of songs are absolutely haunting...
Same. I keep rewinding this video just to listen to it.
It was just a rich man's war poor man's fight . The poor southerner was fighting to keep themselves in poverty and ignorance for southern pride and rights what a joke
I can't find this version of my ol Kentucky home anywhere
@@truthisoutthere2104 If you said that done here, you'd have your teeth re-arranged.
Being in the military taught me just how tough and hard-working southern boys are. I'm glad they're on our side now.
Explains how they prolonged the war for so long against impossible odds. Nothing but total respect for them. They are pretty tough, even today.
well, they've been on the US side before the war and starting with the Spanish war got massively on the US side again and nowadays they're basically the most patriotic Americans
Thank you for the respect
Spent my entire enlistment at the 101st. Airborne in the mid 1980’s. Met soldiers from all walks of life, some were very interesting, others well... In any event we were all brothers just trying to do our best. Best time of my life.
@@gavinculpepper9685 With a last name like Culpepper, there ain't no doubt you're a good ole boy....Deo Vindice
Tom's reaction at 1:09 makes me chuckle every time.
"Im fighting for my rats"
His pet rats back home: "Boy Johnny sure is brave for defending us from those gosh darn yankees squeek squeek"
And yes I know he said rights and not rats. I just found the accent funny
Down here in TN we speak the General's English, it's nanner puddin, not buhnannuh pudding. 😂
they had entire rat plantations in the south
I thought he said rights with a strong southern accent 💀
Great scene. It gives you some context of what Americans in the 19th century saw as their "country". To someone from Maine, Tennessee might as well of been on the Moon, and vice versa. Their states were their countries, and the federal government was looked at more like how Europeans look at the EU today. But this war changed all that. These men left their "country" and saw these "foreign" places that were hundreds of miles away and realize that the US was their country.
You think so eh? I can promise you one thing sir-alot of us here in The Volunteer State look upon say, California as a place very much indeed akin to the Moon. California is the "Cereal Bowl of America".... it's full of fruits and nuts. New York State and Oregon and other such States are not held in very high esteem here, as I'm sure is likewise with them. I have never seen the US as splintered as we are now in my 52 years of life. The woke culture and the cancel culture have done their dead level best to see to that.
Looks somebody is upset that people are asking for things like dignity and respect and for the right to vote and be free of partisan gerrymandering. Go to Russia ye garbage humans.
@@tennesseeridgerunner5992 This is true, but so is what OP said. Before the civil war, people said, “the United States are…” after the war, they said, “the United States is…”
@@tennesseeridgerunner5992 I'm sorry, sir, but that's just not true. I was born and raised in California and I love my home state, but the vitriol that you feel for our home just isn't reciprocated here. I'm sure if you ask a bunch of Californians they'll have stronger opinions on our own state, positive or negative, than they have about Tennessee or Florida or Texas. I just can't imagine bringing myself to hate a place I've never been to, and my travels around the country haven't changed my attitude. I've been to Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and a few other states and I've found something to love in each of them. Politics is a small and deeply unimportant part of a state's identity.
@@deliriousdavies7552 We even wear shirts (no joke) around here that say "DON"T CALIFORNIA MY TENNESSEE". I think CA is blessed with probably some of, if not most of the greatest natural beauty of all the 50 States. Blue Ridge Mtns exempted, ha ha. I think SF is one of the most gorgeous cities on the planet. My best friend has been an Oakland A's fan his entire life since the mid 1970s. Our dream in High School in the mid 80s was to go to Long Beach after graduating and live. It ain't the State itself, or ALL the population that I am lambasting. As America's most populous state it is the Left Wing ethos that so seemingly permeates such a significant proportion of CA's population that is a threat to our way of life we feel. And then...there's Hollywood. If you think "politics is a small and unimportant part of a state's identity", I would suggest you reconsider. I don't feel like going into that at length right now at 5:12am Eastern. I hope I have given you food for thought today, just as you have me. Have a great day Mr. Davies, seriously.
This scene is actually very well choreographed; and thought out of. Two enemies meet each other personally for the first time, and set on each other's differences. A brief friendship in the time of war and distress matched with the background music adds a sense of beauty to war.
“War is all hell, boys.” A quote from whom?
@@rubyait Bill Sherman said that, no?
@@jimvargaco.6344 Cump
And then they starved them to death at prison camps
@@billysunday7507 More the Confederates starving the Union POWs at Andersonville. The problem was neither side was equipped to handle masses of prisoners and they just did exchanges. Then there were black Union troops that the Confederates refused to exchange. Then they both had to hold mass amounts of prisoners that they could not care for
Love the way he says “Maine” perfect balance of pride and humility.
"See you in Hell, Billy Yank. See you in Hell, Johnny Reb."
Loved how at the end of this scene, they posed just like the painting...
Oops; the painting pose is at about 23 seconds....I think the painter's name was Winslow?
When I played the same song while I was out in the West Virginia mountains last summer at cross country camp, I was truly content. One of the best damn country songs there is 🏔🎻🇺🇸
I like Jimmy Hendrixs rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. He was black american who served his country in the 82nd AA was a great muscian and a gentleman.
Some were Blue some were Gray all bleed Red.
So true
any one else seen the jet plane trails in the sky
I was at a reenactment in Missouri years ago, when I belonged to Holme's Brigade of the Missouri Civil War Reenactor's Association. We were near St. Joseph, Missouri, drilling in a pristine area, no 20th century anachronisms around us, when this low flying B-2 stealth bomber flew right over us! Man, if only I had my camera! That would've been a beautiful contrast with us in blue uniforms looking at that B-2 overhead. Neat.
@@ronaldrobertson2332 That would've indeed been neat. Shame...
The microwave in the tent should probably been edited out. 😉😉😉
@@ronaldrobertson2332 ITS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
Oh give it up
I can't believe historical reenactors was able to take part in such an amazing film especially those in the UK
This scene was inspired by a famous Winslow Homer painting, Prisoners From The Front.
In the painting, Tom Chamberlain was replaced by General Francis Barlow, who was homer's cousin.
"Many a good boy lost a young and promising life. Some wore blue, some wore gray" oof that line hits hard.
Pretty on point that right after saying he wasn't fighting over slaves he says he was fighting for his rights and asking why they can't let him live his life without a hint of self reflection that millions of slaves were asking the same thing.
The sad thing about the civil war was how utterly tragic it really was. Men who had served together for years and were pretty much family suddenly forced to choose what side they would fight for. Brother fought brother, friend fought friend.
Ironic since the people they died for never thanked them for it
Any civil war really...
The difference between those Confederate losers and those defending Canada, is that the Canadians defeated the "freedom loving" American army and their right to impose slavery on our country - twice.
@@JB-yb4wn Shut the fuck up nobody asked.
@@AmericanMilitaryHistory
Oh yes, massah don't whip me! 😄
I love the confused look on the Lieutenant’s face when Johnny reb says “rats”.
"Fighting for our rights"
Fighting for your rights TO WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?
"Many a good boy lost a young and promising life. Some wore blue, some wore grey" What a statement dripping in anguish, regret, and sadness.
Regardless of this being a fictional encounter, it still provides interesting insight into what enemies thought of each other during the Civil War. Their interactions were not often this genial, but it was known to happen given the unique nature of this war.
The folks in Andersonville were horribly treated.
@@dustylover100 That is well documented, and the commandant hung for it after the war.
Um, I'm pretty sure all this happened, they use historical documents in the production of the film.
My favorite Civil War movie. Watch it every time I got a reenactment coming up
I have always appreciated the fact that Tom Chamberlain’s interactions with those from the opposing side are interactions that he begins by showing them nothing but dignity and respect. (The three captured rebel soldiers here, the captured officer who he introduces to his brother at Little Round Top, and his dialogue with Armistead at Pickett’s Charge). There is no doubt that his older brother influenced him when it came to having his natural disposition of dignity and respect.
C Thomas Howell played him really well. Very endearing. Heart of gold.
I expect that the real dignity originated with the parents of both men.
To me, great movies have numerous scenes like this one.
Scenes that have little, directly to do with the major story.
But, just the same, add a great deal of texture and fullness to a film.
Turning a good movie - into a special movie.
I learned something from this scene... Even when your opinions by just listening, your gain an audience.
So poignant for me. I was a military doctor in Afghanistan I had to transport a prisoner who was wounded by an explosion from the IED he was attempting to place to blow up coalition forces. He lost his eyes and most of his fingers in the explosion. During the transport, I gave him water and after that, he began to pray. Any animosity I toward him had melted away as I, a physician, began to see him as a human being, a patient helpless and broken. I wondered if he would ever see his family again. I said a prayer for him. He was taken away after we landed but I'll not forget him. Face to face he was not the enemy only a casualty of war.
Thanks for serving.
Thanks for your service.
This whole scene was meant to replicate the painting shown at the beginning of the movie showing a Union officer speaking to 3 prisoners.
A wonderful scene. I wish there was a recording of My Old Kentucky Home like the one played here. It is so simple and somber, fitting to the scene like a glove.
didn't think rats would be a sufficient reason to start a war.
He means rations, it's old slang in the military.
actually, he said rights.
They were all eaten in the Vicksburg blockade.
He's fighting for his rights.
fuck off bitch
First saw this when I was about 10 years old and always assumed he had actual rats back at home.
I fight for my rats
Lol
I still don’t get that.....
@@Reggyrail he’s saying rights with a heavy accent
Great scene.
One of the best scenes in this movie.
Definitely. I just noticed that today and it is what brought me here.
Does anyone know where I can a version of the song in the background I'm working a civil war project and would fit the background perfectly
One of the shots early on is based on winslow Homer's prisoners from the front. The union officer in the original painting was modeled after General Francis Barlow, who made a major strategical error during day 1 of gettysburg placing his division on a indefensible salient
our rats. Yes, that's one of the few close-to-accurate movie portrayals of the southern brogue. Many of my my southern brethren do sound a lot like that.
Well, I'm from Tennessee, so it wasn't much of a stretch : )
@rebel son Just did I was directed : )
@Dan Gurău I reckon I've never been to Maine neither. : )
By far the best scene in the whole movie!!
agreed!!!
Damn, I wish there was a full version of that Old Kentucky Home-rendition going on in the background. I've been looking for something similar for months. xD
And by the way, I am fully willing to believe that most Southern soldiers did indeed fight for their way of life and State Rights and all that. I'm not so sure about the Southern leadership, who opted for secession in the first place, though: they did have a lot to lose with the abolition of slavery. I reckon that Southern soldier propaganda placed an emphasis on State Rights, while the Southern government under-emphasized the fact that slavery was precisely the reason why State Rights (property rights in particular) were now suddenly being threatened by the federal government.
+Imperial Dutchman They didn't secede directly in order to keep their slaves. But they did secede out of a paranoid fear of declining southern power meaning that they could no longer protect their uniqueness from northern encroachment, even with their Northern Democratic allies. And yes some of that uniqueness was slave owning.
The rise of the Republican Party and its openly abolitionist policy, even with a moderate President in power, made it plain that they held no power in Washington that was worth a damn, and the party in power was given a mandate to repudiate Southern uniqueness and destroy the protections under the law that had safeguarded slaveholding and other Southern privileges, such as the Fugitive Slave Act.
Seeing that no advantage could be gained in waiting out the storm, and that the South was unlikely to even out Northern advantages in manpower or industrialization anytime soon, and that indeed every delay only strengthened the power of the North to impose its will on the Southern states, they made their move and seceded from the Union.
Now again, part, not all but part, of what they were protecting was the right to own slaves. So it can rightly be siad that they were fighting to preserve slavery, because that was one of the results of their intended course of action. I really do doubt the common Confederate soldier gave any more than about one good damn about slavery as an institution though, many of them would in fact probably be better off if the planters had to hire help like everyone else. They fought for their own reasons, usually simply because they were defending their land and their people as they believed.
An excellent analysis! As for why the common Confederate soldier fought, this is perhaps the most difficult part for most people to understand, because most of the soldiers didn't own slaves (though many more Southerners owned slaves than is commonly believed).
As you correctly noted, many of them were simply defending their "homes" and their culture. But many of them also had a vested personal interest in maintaining slavery, even if they weren't slave owners themselves.
In the North, the common working man was at the bottom of the economic and social 'totem pole.' But in the South, it was the slave who was at the bottom, elevating the common laborer to a higher status (albeit one still far, far below the Southern aristocracy). Thus, the common Confederate soldier wasn't merely fighting for his "rights" and his homeland. He was fighting to maintain his social standing.
Of course, in the final analysis, he was still fighting for slavery, but as with many things in this world, there was more to it than meets the eye.
It's Pretty simple: For most of them Washington was a foreign power that injustfully wanted to dictate their politics. They did not accept the northern states even to belong to the same Nation as themselfs.
@@hagamapama And you also have to look at why other states joined or sympathized with the south.
Missouri's legitimate government (The Government instituted by the Tyrant Lincoln and his rabid attack dog Lyon was unconstitutional) only voted for secession after they had been expelled from the Capital, Missouri's constitutional unconstitutionally suspended, and it had been made clear that there would be no concessions or magnanimity between the Federal Government (and the German Immigrants in St Louis) and those people that didn't live in St Louis.
This scene, above all others in this film, drives deep the bayonet into the heart.
Im from Sydney Australia iv Read a lot about this war in 1865 First use of machine gun breach loading rifles
Thanks to this movie this is the only version of "My Old Kentucky Home" that I play.
Love how the filmmakers recreated the famous painting shown in the intro at 0:27
At 00:11, jet contrail in upper right.
Meade called in an air strike.
Alternate timeline: what if one of the factions had AK47s given to them and manuals on how to make more AKs and ammo given too by time travelers
You can see a lot contrails in the 1958 move "The Horse Soldiers" with John Wayne. That movie was mostly shot in Louisiana, close to Barksdale Air Force Base. Some scenes are comical, if you look at the sky.
@@shrapnel77 That's why you saw all of those blasts in the field during Picket's Charge, they weren't from cannon, they were from the B-52s overhead!
it's JEB Stuart trying to find where Gen Lee and the rest of the damn Confederate went to.
If we don't fight for our rats, then who will?
The respect shown knowing that these men could have been friends if not only for a war and the simple color of the uniform they were wearing.
The Homer Winslow Painting come to life.
This scene was carefully constructed to match a painting by Winslow Homer, "Prisoners from the Front", 1866. The painting is on display at the Met in NYC, gallery 899. Homer was a correspondent for Harper's Weekly, the CNN of its day, and the prime manner of following the progress of the war for civilians back east.
Airplane at 0:10 XD
Eet weir ee Dee leet com meeet !
Probably on a bombing run to Richmond.
what ho? what is that demonry?
Never too early to get the chemtrail conspiracy nuts going...
There wasn't a plane in frame, but it probably was a contrail.
but it is possible for them to form without planes, clouds can do all kinds of crazy shit without our help, I'm sure they can form a small line in the sky.
can someone kindly tell me where to find this version of "my old kentucky home"? i just think it is so wonderful, thanks a lot in forehand.
What's the music being played in this scene? I want to say "When This Cruel War is Over", but I'm not sure...
Is there a version of the song just violin and guitar like in this video?
Look up “My old Kentucky home”
My great great grandfather was captured and sent to point look out survived the and. Came bsck home. Another fought at sailors creek and lost many friends.. he was lost till the end of the war survived all the wat from st Petersburg to Gettysburg to ghe very end even got an ear drum ruptured at the crator
The man who Tom stands in place of during the talk with the prisoners was Brigadier General Francis C. Barlow.
At 0:08 Chamberlain nearly trips lol
Archers brigade wasn't in the Railroad cut. Davis' was.
this scene goes to show that not all southerners were for slavery, there was a line in a move were a union soilder asked a southern soilder from Mississippi. " what is it like to own a slave", they other soilder said, " own slaves, we couldn't afford shoes".
metalrulesforrever I adgree with you all soilders are different and have there own reasons. you are absolutely right my friend
That was from The Blue and The Gray
@Adrien Yb ua-cam.com/video/t5MlrkHswaY/v-deo.html
Civil wars are the worst type of war. Your not fighting others from a different country, your fighting your own people.
Always it comes down to the question, why are we fighting? Leaders and powerful men are not the ones who die. It is people like you or me. All through history so many ask why. The only answer they get is the cries of children with no parents, families with no fathers, husbands with no wives, and parents with dead children. Let's put aside the hate and live and let live. Let no man harm another. .... Nice dream isn't it?
Dove 456
You act like nothing is worth fighting for. I agree with J.S. Mill on the subject of war, personally.
@@benjamindouglas862 I don’t know if I call that fair but ok.
@@benjamindouglas862 with respect Just because I say it wasn’t fair doesn’t mean I don’t understand why the war was fought. A small Amount of death for institution of slavery isn’t fair because a lot of people that died in that war had nothing to do with it. Killing innocent for more innocent isn’t called fair, it’s called stupid and Barbaric. I mean since we are on the topic of fair, why don’t we talk about how southern people are still treated like crap. It’s hilarious how people think there righteous and forgiving but when it comes to southern people you all think we are racist. A lot of us aren’t and we are living our lives to the best of our ability’s like everyone else. Also what the hell is up with your first comment? Ok I think you should tell all of this to Irish Americans. They were the ones shoved into uniforms immediately when they got of the boat but it’s fair? Why punish people who had nothing to do with it? Also if it was fair then northerns should have been brought to justice for the there part in slavery. They got rich off of slavery just like the 1% in the south did. Don’t get me wrong I understand what your saying. Slavery was a huge issue in the United States and it was arguably the biggest “sin” for the United States. I understand why you think it’s fair but it’s not fair. At least I wouldn’t use that word. Thank you for your time. Take care and best wishes
@@benjamindouglas862 I’m neither. I look at two sides of things without bias. At least I try to. It seems to me that you focus on the bad things that the south did but not on what the north did. They both were wrong and I personally don’t think I should choose a side. Both sides did good things and in a lot of cases they respected each other. When it comes to the word deserved I tend to use it very cautiously. Lee was a very big patriot the majority of his life. He was torn when he had to choose and many on both sides believed has was a good man and a gentlemen. I don’t think we have the right to say what people deserve in this case. You think very harshly against southerners and that isn’t a good thing. The south and the southerners did and is doing a lot for the country. The beautiful idea of being American is that we aren’t an ancient culture and that we aren’t all the same. We are all outcast and the unwanted here. We are a country of the unwanted and the downtrodden. All people have done horrible things and all people have done good things. I had family that fought on both sides of war and I had family that stayed out of it. I don’t think they got what they “deserved”.
@@benjamindouglas862 I’m not defending slavery. It won’t allow me correct the fucking word!!!!!
Great job Trent Walker
South: “live and let live”
also South: “slaves”
@@Commodore22345 Thanks for the response, I understand what you mean. the same can be said for the Union tooo: I'm sure there were some soldiers who don't care about abolishing slavery, they needed the money so they fought or got drafted.
@@Commodore22345 The intentions of the soldiers don’t matter in war
@@gregorflopinski9016 most braindead thing ive read
92% of the Southerners who fought in the "War of Northern Aggression," DID NOT OWN SLAVES! 92%! In FACT they were small, individual dirt FARMERS, who had to compete, for FAIR grain prices, against the Planters, Who DID own Slaves. 92% is one heck of a Percentage.... That number tells you they were fighting for something else. 92%
Therefore.... If the CW was about SLAVERY... Why then was there only 8% of the Southernerers that owned slaves.... THAT FOUGHT, in the CW TO MAINTAIN SLAVERY? ... 8% The Slave ARGUMENT is NOT HERE!
@@Commodore22345 If you will do some research, you just might find: That the USA From 1776 to 1861 was backed by Private, extended Families money/ wealth. With the Majority of these Wealthy, extended families, backing the USA .... Resided in the Southern States. But with the Northern States holding the majority, in population; therefore they held the majority, in both Houses, of the USA GOVERNMENT.The Northern States Representatives Dominated over the Southern States Representatives. With the Northern States Representatives holding the majority... They WANTED A "ONE" CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT.... That controled ALL of the USA WEALTH under one heading. And since, the Northern Representatives would DOMINATE over the Southern States Representatives: The Southern States Representatives would NOT ALLOW the Northern States to dictate over their money. "States Rights!"
The Northern States Representatives wanted a ONE USA CURRENCY... So, they introduced the First USA Paper CURRENCY in to circulation with the American People.... maintaing it was backed by ALL of the Wealthy, Extended Families that was backing the USA. And the Southern States Representatives had NOT been Considered in the PROCESS.
The Southern States Representatives responded by introducing a "Counterfeit," paper CURRENCY into the Northern Representatives Paper Circulating CURRENCY ....
Diluting the CURRENCY and making it "WORTHLESS!"
Abe Lincoln went ballistic on the Congress floor: Where he stated, "We will own EVERYTHING these Southerners have, before they were through." THIS IS WHAT STARTED THE CIVIL WAR!
At that time, the Wealthy people in the USA stored their Wealth on their property and in their homes. (This is what Sherman was after in his march to the Sea.) And some of these Wealthy Families OWNED THEIR OWN PRIVATE BANKS...There was NO one USA UNIFORM CURRENCY. Most of it was in gold and silver coinage. The DIX was used in many Southern States "Lousiana," was backed by French...People... Their Coinage was referred to as the "Dixie!" And there was another Wealthy Extended family circulating a Coinage in California... With the Gold Rush. There was 5 different coinage, being circulated ALL over the USA, at that time.
@fmj29redux
Is it a different part of the song? I thought "shout for the battle cry of freedom" had a different melody...
You cannot demand freedom while preventing others from having it.
like the irish or natives
Been looking for the full movie
Go to wal mart.com order it on line next day shipping.
This is a great movie
The song is My Old Kentucky Home.
Can anyone ID the music in the background? Its a nice little tune
GOD BLESS MY AWESOME FRIEND MOCTESUMA ESPARZA. I AM SO VERY PROUD OF YOU AND SO VERY HAPPY FOR YOU MR. ESPARZA. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH MY FRIEND.
could anyone tell me the title of the song we hear at the beginning of this sequence? Thanks !
My Old Kentucky Home
and that painting is inspired by the real picture of three captured confederates at Gettysburg
If those three guys wouldn't have been captured, they would have had to take part in Pickett's Charge a couple days later. Their bad luck at the railroad cut most likely saved their lives!
Most likely they got sent to Fort Delaware, where they starved to death.
@@russellsmith7685 Wasn't Camp Douglas the really horrific one though? As terrible as it sounds, being sent to Fort Delaware could actually be another stroke of relatively "good luck" (and yes I use that term very loosely)
@@ferda9476 Fort Delaware was every bit as bad as Camp Douglas.
@@russellsmith7685 and according to Gone With The Wind(original book)Rock Island had the reputation of a pesthouse. Southerners would say"Rock Island!" as if they were saying"In Hell!"
As Longstreet said: They should have freed the slaves and then fire at fort sumter.
Or even better they should have freed the slaves and then NOT fired on fort sumter.
The British and French likely would have intervened on the Confederacy's behalf had they got rid of slavery.
@@tsdobbi No. UK and France said they would not join if Condederates were not willing to invade the US.
@@Seriona1 Well hopefully you knew that Gettysburg is in Pennsylvania which was and still is Union land. So they were invading.
@@beardedhistoryguy1863 Lee was violating Confederate High Command, Confederacy wanted to just drill out Union Man Power on the defense.
that's just the way they were. the scene is also good for saying how similar the two sides really were.
Very poignant scene that brings to light why men fight wars one blue one gray how the music sets the tone of the scene ..." My old Kentucky home."...awesome.
Is there a video on UA-cam of just the "My Old Kentucky Home" version played here? All I've found so far is too fast or too slow or having too much "extra".
Tennessean Prisoner: "See you in Hell, Billy Yank."
Lieutenant Chamberlain: "See you in Hell, Johnny Reb."
What's the name of the song playing in the background? I would like to learn how to play it, and I need to know the name so I can...
jonenat It's a particularly beautiful cover of "My Old Kentucky Home".It is the state song of Kentucky.
Several of my ancestors fought in the 53rd Tennessee Infantry
Not sure about the fellas playing those instruments......I think they should've got the Soggy Bottom Boys to give us some mighty fine a 'singing and a 'pickin!
At 1:00....reb was absolutely 100% 'ragght'
First time I saw this I was like "Rats? Big mice?"
What is the name of the song playing in the background?
ok thanks hey I found it but thank you again
Thomas Brennan
Live and let live ...
Funny thing is that I understand much better to southerners than Yankees. I don't know why, but for me as a non-american (even non-english speaking country) is southern english much understandable. :D
Nice to see willie in there too!! 2.12 center
Even during the American civil war Confederate army and Union Army respected each other.
They had more in common with each other than the modern right and left do today.
Honestly sad to know that even during that war the men on both sides had more respect for one-another than people do today particularly the radical left and their disrespect toward those with even slightly different opinions.
@@Jarred-J254 I didn't know Trump was radical left.
@@Jarred-J254 this aged like fine milk
Song in the beginning?
What's the song the union soldiers are playing in the background
Sounds like My Old Kentucky Home.
This scene is inspired by afamous pow civil war painting.
If its the one im thinking of. I know exactly where they stood
"I'm fight'n for my rats...." LMAO
I would have said “ Sorry, what did you say” and he would say “I’m fighting for my rats” again. Then I would say “Your fighting for your rats” and he would say “no I’m fighting for my rats” After half of that I would be like get me someone who speaks Tennessee and can translate!!
I think he said rights. Only took me a year to figure that out.